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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-10-01
The Branch Road.

The Reveille in its last issue, answer
ing our article concerning the removal
of the head of our branch road from
Cades to New Iberia says we do not fire.
quently seize the principal point of a
question, and that our character is some
what contrary to that of others-to that
of the Reveille we must confess.
We maintain that no practical business
man, of clear mind, will disagree with
the views expressed in the Messenger
that if that branch was to run from here
to New Iberia instead of Cades, as at
present, it would not only carry to that
place the business east and north of this
place which belongs to us, but would
ruin and destroy the entire business of
st. Martinsville.
Instead of our points and arguments
being weak as stated by the Reveille we
believe that if our friend had seized the
point, and would have considered and
reviewed the situation in its proper light
he should have recognized that they
were strong and solid, and that he must
have been in weak state of mind when
he wrote his last article.
The business people of the town are
opposed to the change because they know
it would be injurious to our business, and
it becomes our duty to defend and pro-
tect the interest of our town.
We believe it would be far more benefi-
cial to st. Martinville to let our present
connections with New Iberia as they are
and join our efforts to extend this branch
to Breaux Bridge and Arnaudville and
from Cades to Abbeville, as we cannot
with advantage compete with the pros
porous little city of New Iberia.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-10-01

FLESH TO BONES. Any lady, who from
disease has lost her flesh, becoming lean
and lank who has lost her beautiful form
and symmetry, and wishes to regain
these grand anu attractive blessings, on
iy To Use few bottles of DR.. DrOmgOele's
ENGLI5H FEMALE BITTERs.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-10-01
Local Lights.

/
The New Orleans Chronicle comes ou
with Gen. Behan as its choice for Gov
ernor.
just at this present time we are incli
ned to believe that the Reveille is ridin;
a''dark- horse does it not strike yol
thus reader?
A negro riot is reported from MatagOr
da comfy, Texas. Several persons hav'
already been killed, and more trouble il
apprehended. State troops have beer
ordered to the scene of the trouble.
Our thanks are duly extended to Mr.
F. NJ. Welch, Supt., of the Attakapai
Agricultural and Mechanical Fair o.
Jeanerette, for a complimentary tioke
This highly successful fair was opened
to the public Thursday in the thriving
town of Jeanerette and will close to.
morrow.
We are informed by Mr.. J. A. Hitter
who returned from New Orleans We'd
nesday, that Rev. Father Langlois, nov
at Pointe-a-la-Hache, has been appOin.
ed to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Rev. Father Jan. and will re-
main here permanently. Father Ian.
glois is highly recommended.
As female regulator, DR.. DromgoOle,s S
English Female Bitters act like charm
Our old and good friend jeremiah
Fitzgerald. who was a resident of thi
town for the last % years, leaves will
his family for Houston, Texas, to-day
and will make that city his future home
We wish Mr.. Fitzgerald, who will b.
among several of his children who re
side there, all the success he deserves.
The Daily News, bright and news,
paper published in New Orleans will
Mr.. j. c. Mac MahOn as editor, made it
first appearance Monday the 26th. inst.
The News espouses the cause of Gen
F. Il. Nichols, and will be an apprecia
| TED VlSltOr 10 our ONCE.
If you are bothered with hard time ant
want to learn how turn your time int
money quickly and pleasantly, write t.
B. f. Johnion & Co. Richmond Va. They
have plan on foot that you ought care.
fully to consider.
AS will be seen by proceedings pub
lished elsewhere, the meeting of the Nj
cholls Campaign Club of this town an(
Breaux Bridge were largely attended
and new members are being enrolled
daily. The presence of Gen. Nichols
here yesterday will have the effect o
greatly increasing and swelling the list
of his supporters.
800 to $500 a month can be mad,
working for us. Agents preferred VIII,
can furnish their own horses and Civ,
their whole time TO the business. Spar,
moments may be prOftably employed al
so. A few vacancies in towns and cities
b. +. JOHNSON IL CO., 1913 Main stree
Richmond Va.
The Messenger is under obligations t.
the Morning Star for portrait Of tn
late Rev. Francis Y. Leray, Archbishop
of New Orleans.
The Morning Star, now in the 2Otf
year of its existence, is an able advOcat,
of the Catholic Religion and welcom
Weekly Visitor to the family. 1t con
tains variety of choice original matter
local notes, general catholic news, new
summary, freside sparks, star points, Sc
rial stories, poetry, etc, The subscrip
ton price is only 81.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-01
NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
Why 1t Is a Thorn I'm the Flesh of Re
publican Demagogues.

Why 1t Is a Thorn I'm the Flesh of Re-
publican Demagogues.
The Sherman-F Foraker racket in Ohio
Is attracting so much attention among
the collar-button Republicans Of the
East that it is not going out of the
way to say that these two lively partl-
sans have struck the keynote of the
next Republican campaign. The re-
marks of these men are taken up by
the Philadelphia Bulletin, which, in a
general way, is a mild newspaper.
Referring to the votes of the negro
at the South, the Bulletin remarks that
-'by virtue of the existence of these
votes. the Democrats hold thirty-eight
seats in the electoral college and
about twenty-four seats in Congress. :"
To this sad announcement the Bulletin
adds this heart-rending reflection:
mo thoughtful man can contemplate this
vast power which Southern politicians possess
without concern. 1t will be one of the most in
7teresting questions Of the future how the South
can be compelled to abandon this advantage,
and how this inert ignorant and helpless popu-
-lation can be made an active, intelligent and
Euntrammeled force in exercising the right of
franchise"
1t is a pity that the Republicans
should be compelled to chew this bit
ter cud, but chew it they must. Ram
pant Republicans like the editor of the
Balletia should have thought of these
things before. We submit that it is a
little late in the day for Republican
partisans to be inquiring in public how
the Inert. helpless and ignorant
negro voters lean be made an active,
intelligent and untrammeled force in
exercising the right of franchise.
This momentous question should
have been asked when the proposition
to confer the privileges of suffrage on
the negro was debatable. This propo-
sition is no longer debatable. The
negroes have the privileges of the baN-
lot, and, in the South, they are not
exercising it in the interest of the Re-
publican party. This is where the
shoe pinches. This is where the trouble
arises.
What is the remedyP Well. It'll DER
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-01
HOME, SWEET HOME.

A Beautiful Prose Poem by Rev. James
Freeman Clarke.
True society begins in the home.
When two young people love each
other marry, they restore the picture
of the apostolic church. They are of
one heart and one soul. Neither do
they say that any thing they possess is
their own, but they have all things in
common. Their mutual trust in each
other, their entire confidence in each
other, draws out all that is best in
both. Love is the angel who rolls
away the stone from the grave in
which we bury our better nature. and
it comes forth. Love makes all things
new; makes a new heaven and new
earth; makes all cares light, all pain
easy. 1t is the one enchantment of
human life which realizes Fortunio's
purse and Aladdin's palace and
turns the Arabian Nights" into
mere prose in comparison.
Think how this old story
of love is repeated forever in all the
novels and romances and poems, and
how we never tire of reading about it;
and how if there is to be wedding in
a church all mankind go, just to have
one look at two persons who are sup
posed, at least, to be in love. and 80
supremely happy. But this, also, is not
exclusive. 1t shows the power of devo-
ton, trust, self-surrender, that there is
in the human heart; and it is also a
prophecy of something larger that is
to come But it is at least a home, and
before real society can come. true
homes must come. AS in sheltered
nook in the midst of the great sea of
of Mont Blanc is found a little green
spot full of tender flowers, SO. in the
shelter of home, in the warm atmos-
phere of household love, spring
up the pure affections of parent
and child; father, mother, son,
daughter; of brothers and sisters.
Whatever makes this insecure. and
not union for life, but an experiment
which may be tried as often as we
choose. and abandoned when we like.
And this cuts up by the roots all the
dear affections of home; leaves children
destroys fatherly and
motherly love, and is a virtual dissolu-
ton of society. 1 know the great
difficulties of the question. and how
much wisdom is required to solve
them. But whatever weakens the
permanence of marriage tends to dis
solve society; for permanent homes
are to the social state what the little
cells are to the body. They are the
commencement of organic life, the
centers from which all organization
- Reu. James Freeman
Clarke
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-01

on" remarked the clown. "Iherel
He is on now, and will stay on. All
right. There. git up!
/ He cracked long whip SO violently
that it's snap was like the explosion OF
q pistol. and away went pony ana
Billy. Such pony! With black.
vicious eyes, with thick, long name.
with strong. swift legs! Round and
round he went, faster. faster.
"Git up, therer' shouted the clown
cracking that long, loud whip.
! Away went pony, tossing up his
head, throwing himself forward with
| a more and more intense energy. :.
| .sOh, I shall tumblep' screamed
Billy. !.
The clown did not seem to hear, but
| cracked his whip anew and shouted:
| ..Git up!'' -f.R
To his surprise Billy found he was
not tumbling Off Whatever the glue
| ing process was, he stuck to the pony
like a barnacle to the hull of an old
whaler.
And now another thought startled
Billy: What if the pony never, never,
never StOppeus AHCiC ehO PoAy "@~"'
going round and round. and there was
the clown cracking his whip. Now
the people began to come in, and they
laughed to see Billy clinging as the
pony bobbed up and down. Billy's eyes
rolling, his hair streaming. 1t was
very notifying He would have
jumped off the pony if he had not been
glued on. He must ride whether he
wished or not.
Dear mer' thought Billy. what
would grandmother say if she could
see mep''
Hark! He heard voice.
BILLY! Bil-lyr'
It was grandmother calling. He
lifted his head and fancied he saw her
just before him. Was she coming to
rescue himp He felt that she would
be match for the wicked clown, who
still cracked his whip and screamed:
"Git upr' But now hope changed to
fear, even to despair. The pony
seemed to be charging directly upon
grandmother, rushing straight at her,
and in the consciousness of collision
he awoke. @eN
"Why, Billy. what IS the matter!
said grandmother. you have been
asleep, and I just spoke to you and
you dived into me-"
"'Twas the pony, grandmother.
Where is hep
"Oh. you've been dreaming. Folks
that think so much of circuses think
of them when asleep. You had better
go to bed"
mo. grandmother, I'll get that
wood first
'.It rains"
''Oh, don't care. I had rather get
in the wood than ride any more
ponies.
Grandmother kindly held lamp at
the window while Billy ran out to the
shed. E. a. Rand, in Interior.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-01
What is q TIomboy2

Little Lurline Warner wrote that she
was tomboy. Now here is what an
exchange says: A girl romp,
otherwise known as tomboy,
is an eager. earnest, impulsive,
glad-hearted. kind-souled specimen
of genus feminine. If her laugh is
too frequent and her tone trifle too
emphatic we are willing to overlook
these for the sake of the true life and
exulting vitality to which they are the
escape valves; and, indeed, we rather
like the high pressure nature
which must close off its super
fiuous s.steam" in such ebullition.
The glancing eye, glowing cheek, the
fresh, balmy breath, the little grace
full play of the limbs, tell tale Of
healthy and vigorous physical develops
ment which is natures best beauty.
The soul and the mind will be
developed also in due time. and
we shall have a woman in the highest
sense Of the term. When the tombov
has sprung up to a beautiful and yi9.
orous womanhood she will be ready to
tako hold of the duties of life and be-
come worker in the great system Of
humanity, -Dizie Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-01
His Dodge Failed.

Thursday morning doctor rang the
bell at Sioux Falls house and to the
woman who responded said:
Madam. your husband said you
had sustained some serious injuries
this morning and sent me up to see
YOU"
"Well, you can just go right back
again." replied the woman, vigorous
ly, beginning to get red in the face,
I'm all right and you can't come in
this house! Just because fell down
the back steps this morning with a
pail of water that he ought o be en-
carrying and sprained my ankle
a little, he needn't think he can smooth
it over by sending a doctor up and
acting so terribly thoughtful all at
once! Youjust go on, and ifyou want
to come shopping around here at any
time, just come about noon when he
&c is home and my ankle feels little
better than it did this morning. and #
he doesn't need your services himself
then lose my guess. "-Dakota Bell
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-01
TRICKERY IN SOAPS.

The Amount Of Water Which a Good
Toilet Article Should Contain.
Experience is necessary in the pur-
chase of fancy soaps" remarked a
dealer the other day. "You are not
always sure that you are getting the
worth of your money. A good toilet
article should not contain more than
from nine to eighteen per cent. Of wa
ter. The INSCRIPTIONS manufacturer
increases the amount of water in vari-
Gus ways. In some instances he forces
w alter into the soap as it hardens after
the boiling it undergoes; in other
cases he mixes the water by mechanical
means into the soap; in a third and
equally large class of cases he intro
duces some powerful chemical. such as
GIL auber's salts, which enables him to
introduce as much as seventy per
cent. of water. 1t is obvious, there
fore, that ten pounds of honest toilet
soap would contain nine pounds
if thoroughly dried, and that ten
pounds treated chemically would con-
tain less than three pounds. Nor is
the wrong confined to selling three
pounds Tor nine to the innocent pur-
chaser. The spurious soap is affected
by water five times as much as the
genuine. In the wash bowl or bath
tub it dissolves visibly before the eye.
Where its honestly made rival can be
used fifty times, it only lasts ten. If
left by accident in the water it dis
solves until the surrounding liquid is
thick suds. There are soaps of this
sort in the market which are adver-
tised as first-class and sold at high
prices. Have an eye on the man who
calls on you and pretends to give you
bargains by letting on that 1t is the
last of the lot, and tempts you with a
quick falling scale of prices. The
perfume is there and the snowy wrap
per, but it is sixty per cent. water in
stead of honest ap."-Philadelphio
Call
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-01
FOREIGN GOSSIP,

I'm the Asiatic Museum at st.
Petersburg is Chinese bank note
printed in 1899 B. c. 1t is grea,
curiosity.
Some of the leading shop-keepers
n London have ordered their sales.
people to refuse all sovereigns of the
new coinage. They fear that the en-
ployes might receive gilded sixpenees
instead.
An exhibition of French caricatur-
lists will take place in Paris this winter.
Only artists of the present century will
be represented, and there will be some
excellent samples of Gavarni, Dore,
Cham, Andre Gill and recent carica-
turists.
Iodine. hitherto known in nature
only in combination with other ele-
ments, is now found in free state in
the water of Woodhall Spa. near Lin
coin. E 1gland. The water is colored a
decided brown by the iodine. Boston
Transcript.
Sweden manufactures a wood oil
in large quantities from the refuse of
timber cuttings. stumps, roots, ETC.,
which is used as an illuminant. There
are thirty factories engaged in this in
dustry. turning out forty thousand
liters per day.
The Sultan of Turkey has dis
patched a commission to Tripoli to
visit principally the provinces occupied
chiefly by Bedouins, for the purpose of
making thorough study of the cura-
tive methods involving vegetable rem
odies mainly, which these people apply
with singular success.
The Edinburgh (Scotland) agri-
cultural show was this year for the
first time held without exhibits of cat
tie. 1t seems that pleuro-pneumonia
is so prevalent that it was deemed pru-
dent to keep them all away from the
show. The livestock exhibits we're
made up of 337 entries of horses. SO of
sheep. and IL of pigs. The largest
number of sheep we're of the Shrop-
shire breed.
-Eighty-two thousand Germans
live in France at the present time. not
withstanding the steady prejudice
against their nationality. Since the
great war of 1870 they have grad ually
crept back into the country, while,
though bursts of anti-Teutonic feeling
may occur in the press, and even be
practically shown by the French peo-
pie themselves. as on several recent
occasions, in the main tho German
residents get on very comfortably with
their ex-enemies. and find the enmity
more theoretical than practical.
An International Exhibition is to
be held at Glasgow during the summer
of 1888. The guarantee fund already
exceeds f240. 900. and is being in
creased. The objects of the exhibition,
as stated in the prospectus. are ito
promote and foster industry, science
and art by melting the inventive
genius of our people to still further
developmentin arts and manufactures;
and to stimulate commercial enter
prise by inviting all nations to exhibit
their products, both in the raw and
finished state. Public Opinion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-01
They've Got Him on the List.

When ladies make calls they should
always leave their children at home,
particul arly if the children are addict
ed to precocity.
A wealthy capitalist and his wife
recently moved to Austin, and among
the first to call on the newcomers was
Mrs. Judge Peterby. accompanied by
her little daughter Mamie.
After some conversation the wife of
the wealthy capitalist remarked:
Il have frequently read your hus.
bands name in the papers,
Yes" said Mamie, boastfully.
you can find pas name in the Austin
papers every time land is sold for
taxes. They've got him on the list "
-Tezas Siftin1s
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-01
EAST INDIAN MYTHS.

Where Herodotus and Other Ancient
Writers Found Their Fables.
The Greeks accepted, without hest
tation, the tales that were told of men
without noses, and with two orifices
above tho mouth, for the purpose of
breathing, which, it has been suggest
ed, may have been an unconscious
caricature of the Mongols. says a
writer referring to the fables of the old
Greek historians. The pigmies. only
three spans in height, who were
warred upon be cranes and by part
ridges as large as geese, may have
been dwarfish race, dwelling in
woods and at the foot of mountains.
who earned precarious livelihood as
bowmen and trappers.
Bhotan people, whose ears are
enormously elongated by artificial
means. may have been represented as
tribe whose ears reached to the
ground, and which were otherwise so
hung that their owners would coil
themselves up and go to sleep in them.
The swift runners who could run down
a horse might have found their ana
logues within quite recent period
and may perhaps still find them in
some of the native states. The fable
of the gold-digging ant, as large as
wild foxes, has been long since ex-
planned as referring to Thibetan min
ers, men of low stature, who inhabit
the mountainous country to the north
of Kashmir.
The animals mistaken for ants may
very we'll have been marmots. which
are said to be plentiful in those parts.
AS for the monstrous shapes which no
traveller pretends to have seen with his
own eyes, they existed. no doubt, in
bright colors on the inner walls of
pagodas, and were intended to depict
the Rakshasas of demons, odious alike
to men and gods. Such was the proba-
bic origin of the beings who were born
without mouths and lived on the
aroma of fruits and flowers; Of those
whose feet were burned the wrong
way, the heels being in front, while the
instep and toes were behind; of those
who bore the head of dog and were
furnished with claws, who lived by
hunting and fowling, and who clothed
themselves with the skins of wild
beasts; of those who had the ear of a
dog, erect hair and shaggy breasts and
with one eye in the center of the fore
head; finally of those without nostrils,
who devoured raw meat and all man.
ner of abomination and died in their
youth, ungainly creatures with the
upper lip hanging over the lower. OF
no greater Importance are the marvel
Gus animals enormously delineated
rather than invented. such IS
serpents with membranous wings.
that few by night; horses with deers'
heads surmounted by black horn,
with legs without joint, and with the
tail of pig; tigers twice the size OF a
lion; the phoenix. sprung from the
SUMS rays, that lived its life of five
thousand years in India, and. singing
its own dirge, died in its own nest of
aromatic herbs hard by the fountains
of the Nile. 1t would be sheer waste
of time to bestow further thought upon
the childish inventions fathered by
Philostratus upon Appollonius of Ty-
ana, or rather upon the journal of his
fellow-traveler. Damis. Quite as little
attention is due Latin writers who pro-
fsssed to have derived their informa-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-01
SPICY COM MENTS.

No Democratic candidate should
pay any attention to the Republican
effort to fight the war over.-Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
"A Republican leader in New
York declares that his party in that
State must be "disinfected. There
are various ways to do it. Burial is the
best.-AAa California.
1t is base ingratitude for work.
ing-man to fail to vote the Democratic
ticket. The Democratic party has al
ways fought his battle, and is fighting
it yet.-LouisUiUe Courier-Journat.
Governor Foraker, of Ohio, the
young Republican roaring bull, is a
hypocrite. After abusing President
Cleveland without stint, in and before
the Ohio Republican Convention. he
now volunteers 4 letter inviting him to
that State on his Western tour.-N. T.
Telegram.
1t appears thatJ NJ. Tuttle, who
was anxious to insult the President at
st. Louis, on one occasion borrowed
$40. 600 when he was in the hog BUSH
ness. and was hog enough to swindls
his friends out of $50. 900. No wonder
he left the Democratic party and joined
the Republican party.-Lndianapolis
Sentinel
Blaine has done many foolish
things in politics, but he isn't fool
enough to rush home because Sherman
has captured single outpost that
Blaine will get when he needs it. If
Blaine wants Ohio next year. he will
either get it or he will give it to Sher-
man with such cluster of prickly
thorns protruding from the rose that
Sherman won't be able to handle it,
Philadelphia Times.